Improvement in knitting-machine needle



lniitll glatte J. H. LANE AND c." E. HOUSE, 0E LAKE VILLAGE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Lette/rs Patent No. 97,526, dated December 7, 1869.I

IMPRQVEMENT IN -KNITTING-MACHINE NEEDLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part org! the same.

To all whom itmy concern Be it .known that we, J; H. LANE and C. D. HOUSE, of Lake Village, in the State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Knitting- Machine Needles; and we do hereby declare that' the following is a. fulL-clear, and exact description of the same, reference beingr had to the accompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which'the drawing is a plan view of a latch with-my improved rivet.

Alhis invention consists in passing a small piu, of malleable metal, thronghvthe at part of a latch for knitting-machine needles, and then widening the ends ofY such pin, so as to prevent them iom being drawn in either direction through the latch. l

To enable those skilledriu the art to niake and use our invention, we now proceed to describe its construction and operation;

Similar letters iu the drawings refer tolike parts.

A is' an ordinary knitting-machine-needle latch, through lthe lower fiat end of which is passed asmall pin, a, of malleable metal, the ends of which are then widened out so that they cannot be drawn out through the hole in which the pinl is placed.

The latch, with its pin thus prepared, is then placed in position in the needle B, by spreading open theslot iu the latter until the pin a may be placed lengthwise across .the slot, and its ends inserted iu the slots previously prepared' in the sides ofthe needle for the purpose, which-are then to be pressed toward each other 1 into' their original position, tlins'f'astening the latch.

It is evident,Y from the foregoing, that the pin a cannot work out of vthe latch in either direction, as a mere pivot is liable todo, andfurthermore, thatv in case of a breakage of the pin, its place may be s'npplied by a new' one, whereas, if a trnnnion, rigidly attached to the latch, breaks, the latch itself has to be thrown away.

What we claim as new, and desre'to secure by Letters Patent, isf- ',Lhe knitting-machine needle herein described, having` elongated openings inthc sides, to receive the flattened ends lof the 'pivot on which the latch turns, said pivot being fiattened after it is passed through the latch, and the la-teh and its pivot being secured in place in the shank ofthe needle, by springing' the slot in the shank open.

J. H. LANE. y C. D. HOUSE. lVitnesses:

O; H. KEY, J. OLIEF. Moons. 

